haunting

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The ways the siblings cope with their versions of reality are quite different, quite haunting and quite thought-provoking.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

The Gwangju uprising forms the haunting backdrop to Nobel laureate Han Kang's novel Human Acts.

From Barron's • May 26, 2026

But the phantoms of the past remain, haunting our dreams and taunting us with the comfort of imagined reconciliation, until we wake up and it slips away.

From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026

In the familiar fairy tale, sleep represents something close to the curse of death; in this version, and in Mr. Spears’s haunting musical landscape, it is a state preferable to waking.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Still, the snapshot of the girl on the bike followed me, a haunting thing of beauty I knew would break around the next bend, sure as a glass slipping from my hand.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx